Sword God in a World of Magic

Alex walked towards the area where the giant octopus had landed.

He didn't want to miss out on any potential rewards the hedgehog had for him.

While Alex was walking to that place, he looked at his left arm.

His left arm was no longer frozen, and it actually felt a bit hot. Sadly, his left arm was still severely injured. The freezing of organic material completely destroyed its structure, severing veins, and many other things.

Alex's left arm hadn't been in pain while it had been frozen, but as soon as it had thawed, Alex felt searing pain coming from it.

Alex couldn't really move it much, but he could still experiment with it.

The ethereal spire had entered Alex's left arm, and it remained there. He had already accidentally shot some cold air out of his left arm earlier, and Alex wanted to know how that worked.

Alex was already familiar with how it felt to move Mana, and he willed for the cold Mana in his left arm to explode.

SSSHH!

A blast of cold air left Alex's left arm. Since his left arm was still limply hanging around, the cold hit part of Alex's left leg and the ground.

The ice below Alex's left arm grew by a bit, and the coat on Alex's left leg completely froze.

However, Alex was too busy with something else.

As soon as Alex had willed the Ice Mana to explode, his arm started to burn. Well, it wasn't burning literally, but it felt like it was burning.

Alex quickly ran to one of the spots with destroyed ice. The octopus had destroyed a huge part of the lake when it had surfaced.

SSSSSS!

Alex put his arm directly into the icy water and gritted his teeth. The sound of something hot touching cold water could be heard as soon as Alex's arm hit the water.

'Fuck! That's so hot!' Alex thought. 'Are you serious?! You have Mana, and you follow the Laws of Thermodynamics?! You want to make stuff cold, so you have to make other stuff hot?! Why can't you just do something magical?!'

After a while, Alex pulled his arm out and moved it through the air for a bit.

His arm had received several burns.

However, it was coated with a thin coating of ice now.

His arm definitely felt colder than before.

'My arm is colder than before. So, let's try again!'

SSSHH!

Another blast of cold air, and Alex immediately dipped his arm into the cold water again.

'It's not as hot as previously, but it still feels like I touched a hot plate or something,' Alex concluded.

After a while, Alex pulled his arm out again.

'I wonder, can I use less?'

tried to suppress the Mana but also made a bit of it

SSSH!

left arm again, and Alex's arm

Alex's

uncomfortably hot, the temperature that would

Alex's left arm wasn't as cold as in

had witnessed. 'So, my arm heats up proportionally to how cold the air is. I'm not sure, but I think the amount of air leaving my

I need to

his right

bit. Just a tiny,

SSSSSHH!

out of the arm. However, since

some icicles had

icicles off his face and

used a tiny fraction, and my arm probably only heated up by a single degree. Yet, the air

this blast uses the outside temperature as a reference when cooling something, not the

if my arm were 20°C hot, and if I unleashed a blast equaling 20°C, the blast of air would be -60°C, and my arm

as a complicated expression appeared on

some desert that's 50°C and I did the same thing, my arm would reach 40°C, and

looked around. 'Sure, the creatures living in such a cold environment have a great cold resistance, but that's only true to a certain

of 30°C hot air. However, a beast living in a -40°C

with a 5°C cold arm without issues. It would simply feel very dull,

like 60°C or something. Sure, my arm would get severe burns and would become useless until I healed it, but my enemy would be

Alex scratched his chin.

ability in a fight. My sword is one-handed anyway, leaving me with a

time, and he finally came

tree and saw an area of

were all destroyed, and many gigantic needles poked out of the unmoving

the octopus, seemingly

to one of the tentacles and saw how

the octopus, and just

was like Alex stood before

probably fifty meters long, which simply

onto the tentacle and walked along with

Alex walked over to the spot where the hedgehog was currently munching away and stopped before

but after some seconds, it

its head to Alex

became a

After all, it was currently munching on the creator and actual owner of

smelled similar to the

He hoped not!

a bit of sniffing, the hedgehog pulled its head back and looked at

looked at the

back at

walked to the tentacle where

CRUNCH! CRUNCH! CRUNCH!

a minute of biting, the hedgehog

BANG!

threw the tentacle a couple of meters into the distance with a kick from its